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PRESENTATION COPY OF LYKKE-PEER FOR PROFESSOR HOEDT. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Lykke-Peer. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1870. image 1
PRESENTATION COPY OF LYKKE-PEER FOR PROFESSOR HOEDT. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Lykke-Peer. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1870. image 2
PRESENTATION COPY OF LYKKE-PEER FOR PROFESSOR HOEDT. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Lykke-Peer. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1870. image 3
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PRESENTATION COPY OF LYKKE-PEER FOR PROFESSOR HOEDT.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN.
Lykke-Peer. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1870.

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PRESENTATION COPY OF LYKKE-PEER FOR PROFESSOR HOEDT.

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Lykke-Peer. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1870.
8vo. Publisher's printed orange wrappers, chipping, many gatherings sprung.
Provenance: Professor F.L. Hoedt (presentation inscription from Andersen).

PRESENTATION COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF HIS FINAL NOVEL, FOR PROFESSOR FREDERICK L. HOEDT, "Digteren,/ Professoren L. Hoedt/ fra hans Ven/ H.C. Andersen" ["Poet, Professor L. Hoedt/ from his friend/ H.C. Andersen"]. A FINE ASSOCIATION, Hoedt is frequently mentioned in Andersen's diaries. Andersen explains that Hoedt was "the first, with the exception of myself, who had read my stories at the Student's Association" (The Story of My Life, New York, 1872, p.545). Describing the premier of Da Spanierne var her ("When Spaniards Were Here") at the Royal Danish Theatre on 6 April 1865, Andersen writes: "My friend, Professor Hoedt, who had great influence in the theatre, showed a like sympathy" (ibid. p.503).

Lykke-Peer (Lucky Peer) is Andersen's sixth and last novel. It tells the story of lucky Peer, a performer who achieves his greatest success, and dies basking in the applause and adoration — a fitting end. Nielsen 1006.

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